I had a fairly exhausting night - had to get up to assist Mum three times, and the interrupted sleep left me drained. Fortunately, I didn't have to cook today, and the washing-up wasn't much, either. So I took a time-out (with Mum's full support) around 1pm and took the bus to town to pay Müller's a visit. Müller's is mainly a drugstore, but they' ( Read more... )

... that Mum has been home for six days already! We've built up some sort of routine and have managed so far; I hope and pray that it stays that way ( Read more... )

I always thought that such statistics don't really tell you anything, but LJ thought I might be interested, so I'm sharing them with you. I've put it behind a tag because the dratted post is HUGE!
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Meaning that I slept in (all the 20 minutes later than usual), didn't have to cook (yummy leftovers from yesterday), didn't have to make any food runs (scheduled for tomorrow) and had ample time for crafting and writing ( Read more... )

A friend from Poland sent it me yesterday. I laughed myself silly:


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I've been watching "Forged in Fire" on the History Channel lately. I'm not terribly impressed by the channel, TBH - all that Pawn Stars and Storage Wars and Ancient Aliens idiocy really isn't worth wasting one's time on it, and don't even let me start about Knight Fight or Knife or Death... but I digress ( Read more... )

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Soledad's Dewey Decimal Section:

497 North American native languages

Soledad = 9525414 = 952+541+4 = 1497

Class:
400 Language

Contains:
Linguistics and language books.

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After almost three weeks, this morning I actually managed to write something. Not much just a couple of paragraphs, but I pushed a bit forward my Torchwood/Primeval/Sherlock crossover fic. Yay ( Read more... )

... was very busy indeed. As promised, I went back to school to help KA and her eight-term class preparing the disco buffet. It was fun sailing in, giving Boss Woman the widest, happiest grin of my existence, chatting with the (former) colleagues and seeing the kids be happy to see me. We did well with the baking, and one of the 6th-term classes ( Read more... )

... and for the first time ever, I can actually contribute to the Halloween flair. I tried my hand on pumpkin carving today and the results, well... they fit the holiday, I think. Not quite voluntarily, I might add, but there's a reason why I never wanted to become a sculptor.

( Warning: fairly horrible pictures behind the tag )